California's Mail-Ballot Rejection Rate Climbs Despite Push to Count Every Vote
A spike in rejected ballots—nearly 150,000 in the primary—suggests that expansive voting-by-mail systems may create new barriers rather than reduce them, raising questions about whether California's approach actually increases or undermines ballot counting.
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